different between remember vs recorder

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorari (“to remember again”), from re- + memor (“mindful”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *(s)mer- (“to think about, be mindful, remember”). Cognate with Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”), Old English m?morian (“to deliberate, plan out, design”). More at mammer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???m?mb?/
• (General American, uncommon or dialectal, in rapid speech) IPA^(key): /?m?mb?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m?mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: re?mem?ber

Verb

remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)

1. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Remember me? I live in your building.

   • 2021, President Joe Biden

     To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation.

2. To memorize; to put something into memory.

3. To keep in mind, be mindful of

4. To not forget (to do something required)

5. To convey greetings from.

6. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)
   • 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.

   • 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Secret Parting", lines 5-7

     But soon, remembering her how brief the whole

     Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,

     Her set gaze gathered

7. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

8. (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.

   My aunt remembered me in her will, leaving me several thousand pounds.

   • 2003, Little Visits 365 Family Devotions: Building Faith for a Lifetime (Concordia Publishing House)

     Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.

9. (transitive) to commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony

Usage notes

• In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
• See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• remembre (obsolete)

Synonyms

• recall
• reminisce

Derived terms

• disremember
• misremember
• rememberer
• remembrance

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: memre

Translations

See also

• recollect
• recollection
• remind

Etymology 2

re- +? member

Verb

remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)

1. (rare) Alternative form of re-member
   • 1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824:

     knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body ' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death.

   • 2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42:

     According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or remembering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.

   • 2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100:

     She remembered Osiris by putting his pieces back together and mating with him one last time, conceiving Horus, who eventually avenged his father's death.

   • 2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc (?ISBN)

     To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

Alternative forms

• re-member

Anagrams

• remembre

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English recordour, borrowed from Old French recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin record?tor, from Latin recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

recorder (plural recorders)

1. An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
2. Agent noun of record; one who records.
3. A judge in a municipal court.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English recorder, from record (“to practice (music)”).

Noun

recorder (plural recorders)

2. (music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.

   • 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Book 10, lines 12-14, p. 242, ^[2]

     […] he beheld

     The city fronted with bright fires, and heard

     Pipes, and recorders, and the hum of war;

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 12, p. 201,^[3]

     On his [Hamlet’s] taking the recorders—very like a little black flute that had just been played in the orchestra and handed out at the door—he was called upon unanimously for Rule Britannia.

   • 1982, Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, New York: Knopf, Chapter 5, p. 133,^[4]

     And when they paused on a hilltop for lunch, he whipped out his battered recorder and commenced to tootling “Greensleeves,” scaring off all living creatures within a five-mile radius—which may have been his intention.

   • 2017, Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, New York: Penguin Random House,^[5]

     […] he had huffed into his white plastic recorder while scowling at the sheets of music that lay open on the wobbly stainless-steel stand.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• recorder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• re-record, rerecord

French

Etymology 1

From Middle French recorder, from Old French recorder, from Vulgar Latin record?re, alternative form of Latin record?r?, present active infinitive of recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

Verb

recorder

1. to say something repetitively in order to learn.

   As-tu recordé ta leçon?

Conjugation

Related terms

• recordation
• record

Etymology 2

re- +? corder.

Verb

recorder

1. to restring

Further reading

• “recorder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

recorder

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of recordor

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French recorder.

Verb

recorder

1. to record; to register; to make a record (of)

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: recorder

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin record?re, from Latin record?r?, present active infinitive of recordor.

Verb

recorder

1. to record; to register
2. to recall; to remember

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• recort
• recordeor

Descendants

• ? English: record
• Middle French: recorder
  • French: recorder

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (recorder)